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Re: How have you make software less sucky, today?
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Posted: Sep 23, 2005 12:07 AM
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> To be clear, I think that software suckage is a (set of) > choices. For a lot of reasons, we as individuals, > organizations, communities, industries, etc. choose to > support, make, use, buy, condone, incite, etc. sucky > software.
I do agree. It is part of a complex problem but look through the answers here and you'll see that the majority of answers, however eloquent, can basically be summed up by the phrase "blame everyone else for the quality of the software that we produce. Go down that road and the problem will never be resolved.
The production of serious software does involve a chain of people and decisions, many of which are out of our control. Nevertheless, no one else writes the software, we do. No one else maintains the software, we do. Therefore, no one else is responsible for the quality (or lack thereof) of said software, we are.
Impractical answers that try to pin the blame on 'suits', 'buyers', 'managers' or 'Microsoft' just aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Vince.
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